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Where does “fehlbar” come from?

fehlbar (German) comes from German fehlen, from Middle High German vælen, from Old French faillir, from Latin fallēre.

fehlbar (German): fallible; guilty; sickly

Definitions

  1. fallible; guilty; sickly

Ancestry of “fehlbar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanfehlento lack; to be absent from, to be missing from,...
2Middle High Germanvælen—
3Old Frenchfailliralternative infinitive of falir; to fail, err
4Latinfallēre—

Words derived from “fehlbar”

  • Unfehlbarkeit
  • unfehlbar
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